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25'
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Arche Noah

A board game by Christoph Behre
Publisher: Amigo Spiel
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With a name like Arche Noah, you know that you want to collect pairs of animals, but in this card game, you'll also be rewarded for collecting animal triplets and quartets. The more, the merrier! At the start of the game, players receive one animal card face down from the shuffled deck; the deck includes ten types of animals, with cards numbered 1-4 for each type. The player looks at this card in secret, and takes 10-12 purple chips and 2-3 green chips, depending on the number of players. Each round, animal cards are revealed equal to the number of players. In clockwise order from the starting player, each player bids a number of purple chips, then starting with the high bidder (going clockwise from the starting player in case of ties), each player takes one animal card and places it face down on his stack. If a player discards one of his green chips, he takes two animals instead, stiffing whoever comes last in the round! After all of the animals have been claimed, players reveal their collection. If you have two or more animals of the same type, you score the sum of their numbers; if you have all four animals, you receive 3 bonus points; if you have only a single animal, you lose points equal to its number. Each pair of purple chips is worth 1 point. After tallying the points, players shuffle the cards, refill their purple chips, receive one animal in secret, then play another round. At the end of that round, players score again, this time receiving 1 point for each green chip still in hand. Whoever has the highest total over two rounds wins!
Additional information Additional information
Mechanics: Auction/Bidding Set Collection
Categories: Animals Card Games
Alternative names:
BARCODE: 4007396039405
In 1 collection This was seen 14181 times
Description Description
With a name like Arche Noah, you know that you want to collect pairs of animals, but in this card game, you'll also be rewarded for collecting animal triplets and quartets. The more, the merrier! At the start of the game, players receive one animal card face down from the shuffled deck; the deck includes ten types of animals, with cards numbered 1-4 for each type. The player looks at this card in secret, and takes 10-12 purple chips and 2-3 green chips, depending on the number of players. Each round, animal cards are revealed equal to the number of players. In clockwise order from the starting player, each player bids a number of purple chips, then starting with the high bidder (going clockwise from the starting player in case of ties), each player takes one animal card and places it face down on his stack. If a player discards one of his green chips, he takes two animals instead, stiffing whoever comes last in the round! After all of the animals have been claimed, players reveal their collection. If you have two or more animals of the same type, you score the sum of their numbers; if you have all four animals, you receive 3 bonus points; if you have only a single animal, you lose points equal to its number. Each pair of purple chips is worth 1 point. After tallying the points, players shuffle the cards, refill their purple chips, receive one animal in secret, then play another round. At the end of that round, players score again, this time receiving 1 point for each green chip still in hand. Whoever has the highest total over two rounds wins!
Additional information Additional information
Mechanics: Auction/Bidding Set Collection
Categories: Animals Card Games
Alternative names:
BARCODE: 4007396039405
In 1 collection This was seen 14181 times
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